HMS Prince

HMS Prince was a legendary Royal Navy man-of-war that sailed the Caribbean south of Saint-Domingue. It was sunk in October 1722 by pirate Edward Kenway on the brig "Jackdaw".

History
Great Britain's Royal Navy built the man-of-war HMS Prince in Jamaica with the goal of warding off Pirates in the Caribbean Sea. Her black and tattered sails gave her the appearance of a ghost ship, scaring off many pirate ships before they could be decimated by Prince's broadside cannons or mortar. HMS Prince operated south of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), were fog gave her a fearsome backdrop.

In October 1722, Pirate Captain Edward Kenway's brig "Jackdaw" ran into "Prince", with her emerging from the fog and her appearance giving the crew of the "Jackdaw" the notion that she was a ghost ship rising from the dead to sink them. However, Kenway had recently upgraded his hull armor and broadside cannons in Havana, and he sunk the "Prince", gaining 20,000 Reales from her.